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A. MIGHELBAGHER. MACHINE FOR DISINTEGRATING PHAT.

Patented July 2, 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM Mronanmcnan, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Peat-Disintegrators; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference-being had to the accompanying drawings, making a portion of this specification, in whichi Figure 1 is a plan view of a disintegrating machine constructed according to my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

This invention is designed for reducing peat upon the ground to a disintegrated, granular, or pulverulent condition previous to the removal of the same for fuel or other purposes; and it consists in, one or more vibrating digging-rakes so arranged upon a suitable carriage that, when the said carriage is drawn over the peat, the teeth of the rake or rakes will dig into and disintegrate the same. The invention further consists in the combination with such vibrating digging-rake of an adjustable roller, whereby the depth to which the teeth of the rake act uponthe peat may be readily and effectually regulated. The invention further consists in a caster-wheel or roller, operated by a lever, and arranged with reference to the carriage and the vibrating digging-rakes, in such manner that the greatest facility and convenience in using the machine is secured. The invention further consists in a novel arrangement of parts whereby the requisite vibratory movement is communicated to the rakes.

To enable others to understand the construction and operation of my invention, I will proceed to describe it with. reference to the drawings. a

A represents the frame of the supporting-carriage, and B the wheels thereof, one of the said wheels being furnished with a driving-gear wheel, A. The forward end of the frame A is provided with a vertical arbor, a, in the lower end of which is pivoted a caster-wheel, O, and secured to the upper extremity of which is a suitable lever, 15. D represents blocks, which constitute the heads of the digging-rakes, and are furnished at their undetsides with downwardly-extending digging-teeth m, and which are attached to the lower extremities of suspending bars e, the slotted upper ends of which have passed through them a transverse rod, c, fixed in the frame A.

Each of the heads 1) is slotted longitudinally, in order to aflord space for a roller, E, the bearings for the journals of which are formed in the lower ends of slotted plates f, attached to the suspending-bars e by screws g, passed through the slots of the aforesaid plates 1' in such manner asto permit such plates to be adjusted vertically to any desired degree, to bring the under side of the rollers to a greater or less distance below the-under surface of the blocks in which they are located, and thus cause the teeth m to penetrate the peat to the required depth in the operation of the machine. Situated at the front end'ofthe frame A is a crank-shaft, F, one end of which is furnished with a pinion, 'n, which gears into the driving-gear wheel A*, and the other end of which has secured thereon a balance-wheel, r. The cranks a of the crank-shaft F are connected by rods 8 with the heads D of the digging-rakes.

The machine being drawn along by draught animals attached thereto in any suitable mariner, the rotary motion communicated to the crank-shaft from the driving-gear wheel A* causes the said shaft to communicate a vihratory movement to the digging-rakes, the teeth of which, penetrating the peat upon'the ground to a depth proportioned to the distance of the under side of the rollers below the under surface of the heads D, tear and pulverize the peat to such depth, and reduce the same to the required or disintegrated condition. The slots in the upper ends of the suspending-bars 2 permit the rollers to rise and fall sufficiently to .follow any slight inequalities of the surface; and the machine as. it is drawn along may be guided to one side or the other by turning the caster-wheel in the required direction by means of the lever-b, it being designed that an appropriate seat be secured upon the frame A in suitable proximity to the aforesaid lever. If desired, a roller, equal in length to the width of the frame A, may be employed in the place of'the caster-wheel, as indicated in red out line in fig. 1, in which case the said roller, as the machine is drawn along, serves to press down the loose peat in front of the digging-rakes, so asto render the surface more even, thus enabling the teeth 'm to penetrate to a more uniform depth. One, two, or more digging-rakes may be employed, as desired, it being preferred that, when two are used, as shown in the drawings, the movement of one shall be alternated with the corresponding movement of the other.

What'I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1 One or more vibrating digging-rakes, arranged upon a suitable carriage, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The combination, with a vibrating digging-rake, constructed and operating as described, of an adjustable roller, E, substantia-lly as and for the purpose herein set forth.

3. A caster-wheel or roller, operated by a lever, b, and afranged in relation with the frameof the carriage and the vibratingdigging-rake or rakes, substantially as and'for the p'urposeherein set forth.-

4. 'The ci'ank-sheft F, balance-wheel r, pinion n, and driving-gear wheel A*, arranged in relation with each other and with the supporting-wheeled the carriage, and the vibrating digging-rakes, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

A. MICHELBACHER Witnesses:

J. W. CO'OMBS, G. W. REED. 

